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Python · Introduction to Machine Learning — Statistical Foundations

Public introduction · full guide in Eikos

Introduction

What this guide covers

Introduction Chart from the original guide Python · Applied statistics

Overview

Topics covered

  • Introduction
  • Introduction to Machine Learning from statistical foundations
  • Definition and taxonomy of Machine Learning
  • 1.1 Fundamental taxonomy: three learning paradigms
  • Supervised learning Supervised
  • Unsupervised learning Unsupervised

Related concepts

Main connections

  • Regularization (Lasso / Ridge / Elastic Net)
  • Variance & standard deviation
  • Preprocessing pipelines & transform recipes
  • Overfitting & cross-validation
  • Linear algebra & matrices
  • Logistic regression

Compatible notation

Mathematical sample in LaTeX

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y=f(𝐱)+ε
View LaTeX sourcey = f(\mathbf{x}) + \varepsilon